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BISHKEK (TCA) — A shoot-out on a disputed section of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the Ferghana Valley on September 16 left one border guard dead and more than 20 other people wounded, officials from both countries say, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A Central Asian regional seminar on demarcation and delimitation practices concluded in Bishkek. The eighth of its kind, it built on the success of the previous events organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department/Border Security and Management Unit since 2011. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and his Kyrgyzstan counterpart Sooronbai Jeenbekov on July 26 met in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border as they look to ease tensions in the border area. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Officials say clashes on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have left at least one dead and several more wounded, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A disputed section of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan reopened on March 18 following the successful conclusion of four days of bilateral talks, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Deadly violence has broken out for a second consecutive day along a disputed section of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border after Kyrgyzstan restarted construction work on a controversial road in the area, RFE/RL reported. An official in Tajikistan's Interior Ministry told RFE/RL that one villager from Tajikistan's Vorukh exclave in the Ferghana Valley was killed by gunfire on March 14 and two other Tajik villagers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Meanwhile, Kyrgyzstan's Health Ministry says a Kyrgyz police officer was wounded by gunfire that was exchanged during the incident. Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov's press service says Jeenbekov and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon agreed during a March 14 phone conversation to push forward with talks on delineating their disputed borders and to launch a joint investigation into the shootings. Kyrgyz Prime Minister Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev and his Tajik counterpart Kohir Rasulzoda also discussed the border tensions in a separate phone call on March 14, the Kyrgyz government's press service announced. The violence came a day after a Tajik villager was shot dead at the same location during a clash between residents of the Kyrgyz village of Ak-Sai and the Tajik village of Mehnatobod. The villager slain on March 14 was named by Tajik officials as 37-year-old Rafouddin Teshaev. The main directorate of the Tajik Border Guards said 43-year-old Tajik villager Husein Hakimov was shot dead on March 13 in a clash that left 11 other Tajik citizens hospitalized. It said the March 13 clash began when dozens of Kyrgyz and Tajik villagers confronted and threw stones at each other near the construction site. Tajik authorities said violence escalated quickly and gunshots were fired after a storage shed of a Kyrgyz villager and a flour mill belonging to a Tajik villager were set ablaze. Kyrgyzstan said one Kyrgyz villager from Ak-Sai was hospitalized on March 13. Kyrgyzstan has been attempting to build a new stretch of road in the area for years, stopping and restarting construction work repeatedly while negotiators from the two countries try to reach a formal border-delineation agreement. Tajikistan insists the proposed path of the road cuts through disputed territory, and that the road should not be built until a deal is reached on the exact location of the border. Officials from both countries said that construction work on the road had, once again, been halted while negotiators discuss the situation. Many border areas in Central Asian former Soviet republics have been disputed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The situation is particularly complicated near the numerous exclaves in the volatile Ferghana Valley, where the borders of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan meet.
